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Patna, (Bihar Times): An aquarium and three hatcheries will be set up in Patna soon. While the aquarium will be located near Patna Museum and Planetarium the hatcheries would come up in Mithapur.
According to the director of the fisheries department, R N Chaudhary, the Infrastructure Leasing and Finance Society (ILFS) would be engaged to prepare the design of the double-storied aquarium on an 800 square metres plot of land belonging to the fisheries department near Vidyapati Bhawan.
Since it would be located near the museum and planetarium it is likely to attract people from Patna and outside. The project is estimated to cost Rs 21 crore.
The department also proposes to come up with a marketing complex, complete with parking enclosure at the site. The project would be completed in two years.
The aquarium would be handed over to private parties on Public-Private Partnership basis. The aquarium project has already been sent to the finance department for approval, Chaudhary told a section of Press. It would be built on the lines of one constructed in Hyderabad. A team of scientists from the Central Institute of Fisheries Education, Mumbai, which includes Dr A K Reddy, Dr Dilip Kumar and Vivek Kishore, had visited the Fisheries Research Institute at Mithapur early this week and assured all help to the fisheries department of the state in developing three hatcheries for breeding fresh water prawn.
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